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As of 2017 WHO was still recommending prioritizing girls under 15 for vaccination: https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/position_papers/pp_hpv_may2017_summar
by klipt 5y ago
As of 2017 WHO was still recommending prioritizing girls under 15 for vaccination: https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/position_papers/pp_hpv_may2017_summary.pdf https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/position_papers/pp_h...
> Vaccination of secondary target populations e.g. females aged ≥15 years or males, is only recommended if feasible, affordable, cost-effective and does not divert resources from vaccinating primary target population or from effective cervical cancer screening programmes.
- t-writescode 5y agoI think the tone I read implied into your post was that it was something malicious or arrogant. "Don't protect the men because they don't need to care about giving it to women", followed by "oh noes, men can get sick too! Better protect them!" rather than a resource allocation problem, as the quote is arguing.